Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupovcontinues his complete course of chess improvement.Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chessplayers the basic ideas they should know. Now Volume2, Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery.Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level ofchess understanding using carefully selected positionsand advice. This new understanding is then tested by aseries of puzzles. Artur Yusupov, from Germany, was ranked No. 3in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind thelegendary Karpov and Kasparov. In recent years he hasmainly worked as a chess trainer with players rangingfrom current World Champion Vishy Anand and manyother top grandmasters, to talented.